Fully partitioned carrier with reinforced handle



March 30, 1954 7 w. A. RINGLER 2,673,677

FULLY PARTITIONED CARRIER WITH REINFORCED HANDLE Filed April 7, 1950 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR.

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ATTORNEYS- March 30, 1954 w. A. RINGLER 2,673,677

FULLY PARTITIONED CARRIER WITH REINFORCED HANDLE Filed April 7, 1950 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 16' EG'I'ZINVENTOR. H/MLMM 4 fF/NGI. 51

ATTORNEY$ Patented Mar. 30, 1954 T QFFECE FULLY PARTITIONED CARRIER'WITH REINFORCED HANDLE William A. Ringler, Wayne, Pa., assignor to The Gardner'Board and (larton Ca, Middletown, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application April 7, 1950, Serial No. 154,507

. 4 Claims.

,1 My invention relates to paperboardcarriers for bottles or like articles. It is an object of the invention to provide a fully partitioned paperboard carrier which can be completely manufactured in the knocked down condition, requiring only a simple erection by lateral displacement to fit it foruse.

It is an object of the invention to provide an exceptionally strong carrier of fully partitioned character, in which the handleelement is fully It is an object of my invention to provide a paperboardbottle carrier having the advantages outlined above which has atthesame time new appearance values, as willhereinafter be apparent.

It is'an'object of this invention to provide a fully partitioned bottle carrier which can be cut economically from larger sheets of paperboard.

It is an object of the invention -to provide a mode of folding and gluing the bottle carrier described herein.

It is an object of the invention to provide a bottle carrier having a paperboard handle element which may be employed as such, but which also may used with a wire handle where desired.

These and otherobjects of the invention, which will be set forth hereinafteror will beapparent to one skilled in the art upon reading these specifications, .Iaccomplish in that construction and arrangement of parts, and in that procedure, oi which I shall now describe an exemplary embodiment.

Reference is made to theacccmpanying drawings wherein: V

Figure 1 is aplan viewof the blank for my improved-bottle carrier.

Figure 2 is a partial plan view showing an initial'stage of folding and gluing.

Figure 3 is a partial plan view showing a subsequent stage of folding and gluing.

Figure 4 is a partial plan View showing the reinforcing handle flap in folded andglued condition.

Figure 5 is apartialsectionalview taken along the line 5-4 of Figure 3.

Figures 6, 7 and 8 are plan views showing further stages of folding and gluing.

Figure 9 is a plan view showing theblank in fully folded and glued condition.

Figure 10 is a horizontal sectional viewof the structure of Figure 9 taken along the line it& ll of that figure.

Figure 11 is an elevational view with a portion broken away of the erected bottle carrier.

Figure 12 is a horizontal sectional View of the erected carrier takenalong the line l2l2 of Figure 11.

Figure 13 .is a vertical sectional view of the erected carrier taken along the line l4l4 of Figure 11.

Figure la is a partial perspective view of the erected carrier.

Referring to Figure 1,,in which dot-dash lines are lines of score and solid lines are lines of cut, I have shown a paperboard blank which may be made by ordinary cutting and scoring ,methods from paperboard of suitable weight and strength, which may be printed if desired. The blank as illustrated embodies a side wall 5 5, a bottom wall it, and .a side wall ll articulated together in the order setiorth. The bottom wall or panel has a median score line #8. The side wall l5 has articulate-d to its ends partial end wall portions it and .20. One of thesepartial end wall portions, it, has articulated to it a central partition element 2!. ,This element is provided with .a handhole indicated at 22, and also has a flap portion 23 designed to be folded over onto the body of the partition element and adhesively secured thereto so as to provide a handle reiniorcement or bar lying above the hand hole 22. lhe other of the partial end wall elements, 20, has articulated to it a glue flap '24.

In a similar fashion, the side wall element I! has articulated to, it partial end wall elements 25 and 26, the first mentioned of which bears in articulation a central longitudinal partitioned element 2? having a hand hole 28 and a reinforcing flap it, while the other bears a glue flap it. It will be noted that the out lines demarking the outer ends ,of the partial end wall elements it, '26, .25 and 25, run slantwise upwardly from theends. of the side wall elements it and ll. This gives to the end wall elements an upwardly beveled conformation as they approach the central longitudinal partition in the finished carrier, providing bracing shoulders for the central partition, as will be clearly evident in Figurel i.

Lateral partition structures are articulated centrally to the outer or upper edges of the side wall elements l5 and I1. These lateral partition structures respectively comprise central portions 3| and 32, which are directly articulated to the respective side walls. The portion 3| of the upper lateral partition structure has articulated to its side elements lateral partition panels 33 and 34, which in turn carry attachment flaps 35 and 36, which attachment flaps will be adhesively secured to the central longitudinal partition in the finished structure. In forming the lateral partition elements, I prefer to interrupt the score lines between elements 35 and 33 and between elements 34 and 36 by U-shaped cuts which demark tabs 31 and 38 which are cut out of the lateral partition panels 33 and 34 and become adhesively secured to the central longitudinal partition along with the attachment flaps 35 and 36. This contributes substantially to the strength of the structure inasmuch as the lateral partition panels cannot peel away from the central longitudinal partition under the outward strains incident to the use of the bottle carrier, without tearing the board.

In a similar fashion, lateral partition panels 39 and 46 are articulated to the side edges of the element 32 on the lower side wall panel l1; and the lateral partition panels 39 and 40 are provided with articulated attachment flaps 4| and 42, having tabs 43 and 44 as above described.

A notch 45 may be formed in the bottom panel at an end of the median score line l8. Corresponding notches 46 and 41 may be made in the inner ends of the longitudinal partition elements 2| and 21. The purpose of these notches will hereinafter be described.

In folding and gluing the carrier, the handle reinforcement flaps 23 and 29 will be folded over onto the longitudinal partition elements 2| and 21 and adhesively secured thereto, as in Figure 4. This can be, if desired, a separate operation conducted upon a highspeed. straight line gluer, as known in the art; the remaining folding and gluing operations hereinafter to be described are well adapted for performance of the right-angle type, or on known folding and gluing machines having traveling folding mechanisms for folding elements along lines transverse to the direction of motion of the blank. On either type of machine the folding and gluing of the handle reinforcement flaps 23 and 29 can proceed concurrently with operations hereinafter described pro- .viding the machine has a suflicient number of folding instrumentalities.

As illustratedin Figures 2 and 3, the initial folding operations are performed on the lateral partition structures. These must be folded inwardly in such fashion that element 3| becomes adhered to the central portion of side wall l5 and element 32 becomes adhered to the central portion of side wall |1. Also, the lateral partition panels 33 and 39 together with their attachment flaps 35 and 4| and tabs 31 and 43 must be folded over, bringing the parts into the condition shown in section in Figure 5. In Figure 2 I have shown an area of adhesive 48 applied to the side wall element IT for the purpose of adhesively securing the element 32. Also, I have shown an area of adhesive 49 on the longitudinal partition element 21 for the purpose of securing the reinforcing flap 23. Figure 3 illustrates the lateral partition elements folded into the positions shown most clearly in Figure 5. Areas of adhesive 50 and 5| are now applied to the lateral partition attachment flaps 4| and 42 and their tabs 43 and 44, as will be evident in the fig e- Another area of adhesive 52 may be applied to the glue flap 30. The application of adhesive to these various areas may be accomplished by conventional spot glue applicators.

The next operation in the folding process involves folding over the longitudinal partition elements 2| and 21 and the partial end wall elements I 9 and 25 on the lines of articulation between the latter and the side wall elements I5 and H, bringing the blank into the condition shown in Figure 6. This results in the adherence of the lateral partition attachment flaps 35, 36, 4| and 42 and the tabs 31, 38, 43 and 44 to the longitudinal partition elements 2| and 21. The areas of adhesive 52 having been applied to the glue flaps 24 and 30, these glue flaps may be folded over and adhesively secured respectively to the free edges of the longitudinal partition elements 2| and 21, bringing the carrier into the condition shown in Figure 7.

The final operation involves the application of an area 53 of adhesive to one of the longitudinal partition elements, say, the element 21, and the folding of the blank along the median score line I8 of the bottom element l6. This results in superposing the longitudinal partition elements 2| and 21 and securing them to each other. The collapsed carrier will appear as in Figure 9, the longitudinal partition structure being laterally displaced between the side walls, with the end wall elements I9, 23, 25 and 25 and the lateral partition panels 33, 34, 39 and 40 lying in parallelism in the collapsed condition. This relationship of parts will be clear from Figure 10, which is a cross-sectional view of the partially collap ed carrier.

The carrier is easily erected by pushing on opposite sides of the structure of Fig re 10. This results in horizontal alignment of the side wall elements and the longitudinal partition element, the side wall elements moving apart under the influence of the end wall elements and the lateral partition elements, which ultimately ass me positions at right angles to the side wall elements and longitudinal partition, as illustrated in Figure 12. At the same time the bottom element l6 unfolds on the score line l8 and rises to a horizontal position in which the two elements of the bottom are substantially coplanar. To fix the empty carrier initially in the cre ted position, it is only necesary to press upwardly on the left-hand end of the bottom element l5. This causes the notches 46 and 41 of the longitudinal partition elements to interengage with the notch of the bottom, as will be clear from the showing at the lower left-hand corner of Figure 11. The erected condition of a new carrier may thus be maintained in spite of the resiliency of the board and prior to the loading of the carrier. Thus a plurality of carriers may be placed in a bottle crate without tendency toward distortion, and the carriers may then be loaded by automatic loading machinery. In Figure 13 bottles have been indicated at 54. The height of the central longitudinal partition may be as desired; and the reinforced top of the partition element may be employed as a carrying handle by reason of the hand holes 22 and 28. Where bottle carriers are to be stacked one upon another, it may be found preferable to terminate the central longitudinal partition structure at or below the tops of the bottles and to employ a wire carrying handle which extends above the tops of the bottles but is depressible therebelow. A type of carrying handle well adapted for this purpose and having means to prevent such displacement as would interfere with automatic loading is set forth and claimed in my copending application, Serial No. 142,130, filed February 3, 1950 and entitled Handle Structure for Carriers.

Modifications may be made in my invention without departing from the spirit of it. Having thus described my invention in an exemplary embodiment, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A fully partitioned paperboard bottle carrier formed from a one piece blank cut and scored to provide a side wall, a bottom wall and a side wall in articulation in the order named, partial end wall panels articulated to the ends of said side walls, full length longitudinal partition elements articulated to the partial end wall panels at one end of the carrier, glue flaps articulated to the partial end Wall panels at the opposite end of the carrier, said carrier blank being folded with said longitudinal partition elements juxtaposed and adhesively secured together, said glue iiaps being adhesively secured to end portions of the longitudinal partition structure so formed, lateral partition structures for dividing said carrier laterally into a plurality of cells, said lateral partition structures comprising a central panel articulated to the top edge of each of said side walls, lying in folded position inside said side walls and adhesively secured thereto, lateral partition panels articulated to the side edges of said central attachment panels and extending between said side walls and said longitudinal partition structure, attachment flaps articulated to the ends of said lateral partition panels, the lines of articulation between said attachment flaps said transverse partition panels being inter-- rupted by Ll shaped cuts in the transverse partition panels demarking attachment portions therein integral with said attachment flaps, said attachment flaps and said integral attachment portions being in adhesive engagement with said longitudinal partition structure.

2. A fully partitioned paperboard bottle carrier formed from a one piece blank cut and scored to provide a side wall, a bottom wall and a side wall in articulation in the order named, partial end Wall panels articulated to the ends of said side walls, full length longitudinal partition elements articulated to the partial end wall panels at one end of the carrier, glue flaps articulated to the partial end Wall panels at the opposite end of the carrier, said carrier blank being folded with said longitudinal partition elements juxtaposed and adhesively secured together, said glue flaps being adhesively secured to end portions of the longitudinal partition structure so formed, a median score line in said bottom to permit the collapsing of the carrier, said longitudinal partition elements extending above said side walls and having mating hand-hold openings formed therein, reinforcing flaps articulated to the top edges of said longitudinal partition elements, said reinforcing flaps being turned over outwardly and secured to the partition elements to which they are articulated, lateral partition structures for dividing said carrier laterally into a plurality of cells, said lateral partition structures comprising a central panel articulated to the top edge of each of said side walls, lying in folded position inside said side walls and adhesively secured thereto, lateral partition panels articulated to the side edges of said central attachment panels and extending between said side walls and said longi tudinal partition structure, attachment flaps articulated to the ends of said lateral partition panels, the lines of articulation between said attachment flaps and said lateral partition panels being interrupted by U-shaped cuts in the lateral partition panels demarking attachment portions therein integral with said attachment flaps, said attachment flaps and said integral attachment portions being adhesively secured to said longitudinal partition structure.

3. A process of making a paperboard bottle carrier which comprises providing a one piece blank having a side wall, a bottom wall, and a side wall in articulation in the order named, partial end Wall elements articulated to the ends of said side walls, iulllength longitudinal partition elements articulated to the partial end wall panels at one end of the carrier, glue flaps articulated to the partial end wall panels at the opposite ends of the carrier, and lateral partition structures each comprising a central panel in articulation respectively with the top edge of one of the side walls, lateral partition panels in articulation with said central attachment panels on either side thereof, and attachment flaps articulated to the outer edges of said lateral partition panels, the lines of articulation between said attachment flaps and said lateral partition panels being interrupted by U-shaped cuts in the lateral partition panels demarking attachment portions therein integral with said attachment flaps, folding the lateral partition structures inwardly onto the side walls and folding over as to each side wall one of the lateral partition elements and its associated attachment flap, and thereafter folding over as to each side wall the longitudinal partition element and its associated end wall element and adhesively securing the lateral partition attachment flaps and attachment portions to said longitudinal partition elements respectively, folding over and adhesively attaching the glue flaps to the longitudinal partition elements, then folding the carrier blank on a line or fold median to the bottom wall to juxtapose said longitudinal partition elements, and adhesively securing said longitudinal partition elements together to form a, longitudinal partition structure.

4. The process claimed in claim 3 wherein said carrier blank includes reinforcement flaps articulated to the upper edges of said longitudinal partition elements, and wherein said reinforcement flaps are folded over and adhesively secured to the longitudinal partition elements to which they are articulated prior to the folding over of said longitudinal partition elements to overlie said attachment flaps.

WILLIAM A. RINGLER.

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